Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-13
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

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to remain open on that day, and the Dis
trict Commissioner on last Sunday required
all news stands, cigarstores, confectiOneries
and lunch houses to shut up. It is expected
that a test case will be made up by some
dealer almost Immediately. While the com
E~issioners do not state such to be the case
their action is believed to be the outcome OF
liquor selling. This law has been enforced
the last two Sundays, and has proved re-
markably successful, owing to q provision
making q second conviction for its violation
work a forfeiture Of license.
Secretary Whitney has decided to
push to completion the work on the cruisers
Atlanta, Boston and Chicago, so as to per:
NIT Of an early adjustment Of the accounts
with the contractors. To this end all extra
work on the vessels, such as the changes
made in the Boston and Chicago by direct.
ion Of the naval advisory board as a result
Of the trials Of the Atlanta, will be discon-
tlnued, and aside from some small changes
necessary to fit the vessels for sea the ener-
gies of the department will be concentrated
upon the work required by the original
contracts with John Roach. The Secretary
addressed a letter to the chiefs of the bu-
reaus of construction and steam engineer
the above effect.
Joseph H. Bradley, a noted lawyer
of Washington, D. c., died on the 3rd, aged
81 years. He was counsel for Mrs. Surrat,
n for conduct during the Lincoln assassi.
nation trials was disbarred by the presiding
Judge on the charge of disloyalty, but was
restored six years later. An episode in his
career was his marriage with Mary Harris,
a treasury clerk, who shot and killed
another treasury clerk named Burrows,
who. under promise of marriage, conspired
her ruin. Bradley secured the acquital of
his client, and afterward married her.
1t is reported from Washington that
Recorder Trotter still lies in a precarious
condition, and danger exists that he may
fall into quick consumption. the strain on
his lungs from the attack Of typhoid
nearly to disintegrate them. He resides
and is being carefully nursed at the house
of Mrs. Harriet Jacobs, whose life history
has become widely known both in this
country and Europe. She was a slave in
North Carolina, whose escape, told by her
self, had a great sale in abolition time.
On the 9Th a Committee waited upon
President Cleveland and invited him to at.
tend the reunion and banquet of the live
stock breeders of the United States to be
held at Chicago Nov. Is, 1857. The Presi-
dent thanked them for the invitation, and
said that while he had a great desire to Wis
it the West, he could not very well prom
Use to accept an invitation for a date SO far
November, he remarked, depended entirely
upon the state Of public affairs at that time.
The Chinese minister has received
from the State department a check for
$I47,O GOO, the indemnity voted by congress
for the sufferers by the Rock Springs, Wyo.,
outrage q year ago last September. The
amount awarded averages about 500 to
each Chinaman for property. No com.
Pensation is paid for personal injuries.
though twenty-five men were murdered and
many more MANNED. :
President Cleveland has written a
letter to the Fisherman's Union of Glouces
ter, Mass, asking them not to embaress the
Government by any rash action regarding
the fisheries complication, assuring then
that all will be done that will protect in
| dividual rights n interests and consistent
with National dignity.
There can be no doubt that the wife
of Secretary Fairchild will make her marl
charming and cultivated woman Of retiring
manners and great dignity of character, and
one whom it will be a pleasure to meet a.
the first lady of the cabinet.
1 The Interstate Commerce com.
mission has appointed E. L. Pugh of Ala
bama to a ~clerkship under the commission
Mr.. Pugh is a son of Senator Pugh. This is
the first appointment made ky the com.
mission.
The Interstate Commerce commission
has suspended for 90 days the operation
of the long and short haul clause of the in.
terstate commerce act in the case of the
Southern Railway and Steamship Company
congressman Holman thinks Speake,
Carlisle will not remove Mr.. Randall from
the craftsmanship of the appropriations
committee. as is
President Cleveland has been hon.
ored by having, as far as heard from, 2O(
boys named after him.